Re: Raspberry Pi as an inexpensive embedded LCDproc server
David Glaude <[email protected]> Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:24:20 +0200
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If you do that my Raspberry Pi will move from wish list to order list. Please document the hardware/soldering part for dummies it might help me. Le 18 août 2012 05:09, "Ethan Dicks" <[email protected]> a écrit : > Hi, All, > > Like much of the planet, I'm waiting on delivery of a Raspberry Pi to > start a number of experiments. In the meantime, Adafruit has posted a > bunch of R-Pi tutorials today including this one: > > http://learn.adafruit.com/drive-a-16x2-lcd-directly-with-a-raspberry-pi/ > > It's six GPIO wires from the R-Pi to an HD44780 LCD, and the rest is > all software. There's plenty of space and horsepower to run LCDd on > the R-Pi. It's probably not too much of a stretch to whip up (and > share) design files to mount a 4x20 (or whatever is desired) in a > laser-cut acrylic enclosure with the R-Pi. At $35 for the > network-enabled computer plus, say, another $10 or $15 for the > enclosure, it seems reasonable to bring the entire project in (with > PSU and LCD) for $80 or less. > > If nobody beats me to it, I will be happy to try to get LCDd to > compile on the Raspberry Pi once mine arrives. There would need to be > some driver mods to use R-Pi GPIO rather than a PC parallel port, but > I can't imagine that would take any great effort especially building > from the Adafruit tutorial. > > Cheers, > > -ethan > _______________________________________________ > LCDproc mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.omnipotent.net/mailman/listinfo/lcdproc > _______________________________________________ LCDproc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omnipotent.net/mailman/listinfo/lcdproc